This is so interesting!! I'd never heard of digital humanities as a term, and now I've learned something! I would love for it to become considered a legitimate source and considered real research. I've always held a bit of frustration towards academia, mostly because I find it often very hard to read (and hard to access if you don't attend or work for a university!) and hopefully that'll change someday. That's why I post short research essays here. I want people to have access to this information and learn no matter who they are.
Thank you @g.m. for the shout out! My opinion on whether Substack could become an academically legitimized source for research is that we would need to put into a place a way to vet the knowledge production here, just like Wikipedia has their entries written and vetted by a community. This is still a political process, with all the messiness that entails! I hope to build such a community, one where we mutually edit and strengthen our pieces through critique, and crowdsource the best of the best. But I don’t care if it is ever accepted by academia. Academia has its own system and rules, mostly for the better. The vetting process is flawed but has served for a few centuries to produce agreed upon truth and knowledge, mostly scientific. There are so many social problems that are made worse because / when we don’t know if something is true and trust worthy. On social media, truth is what the platforms will allow you to say, so that is no good. If you want cred in that academic system, then you submit your work to academic journals. A little known fact is that those things are blind reviewed, and no one will know your credentials or lack of. Get an academic coach and work on a piece to make it academically viable, and give it a try. Heck, I’ll help anyone in my areas of expertise. Substack could easily be a playground for ideas that then are polished and backed up by vetted knoweldge, then submitted for review. Having worked closely with 2 academic journals, you don’t even know how hard it is to get pieces that are good enough for publication, and feminist presses need good works. So let’s do good works, and bring academia into the public production of intellectual work and knowledge. That would be something else!
This is so interesting!! I'd never heard of digital humanities as a term, and now I've learned something! I would love for it to become considered a legitimate source and considered real research. I've always held a bit of frustration towards academia, mostly because I find it often very hard to read (and hard to access if you don't attend or work for a university!) and hopefully that'll change someday. That's why I post short research essays here. I want people to have access to this information and learn no matter who they are.
I’m glad I could introduce you to the discipline and I share the same ethos as you 💛
Thank you @g.m. for the shout out! My opinion on whether Substack could become an academically legitimized source for research is that we would need to put into a place a way to vet the knowledge production here, just like Wikipedia has their entries written and vetted by a community. This is still a political process, with all the messiness that entails! I hope to build such a community, one where we mutually edit and strengthen our pieces through critique, and crowdsource the best of the best. But I don’t care if it is ever accepted by academia. Academia has its own system and rules, mostly for the better. The vetting process is flawed but has served for a few centuries to produce agreed upon truth and knowledge, mostly scientific. There are so many social problems that are made worse because / when we don’t know if something is true and trust worthy. On social media, truth is what the platforms will allow you to say, so that is no good. If you want cred in that academic system, then you submit your work to academic journals. A little known fact is that those things are blind reviewed, and no one will know your credentials or lack of. Get an academic coach and work on a piece to make it academically viable, and give it a try. Heck, I’ll help anyone in my areas of expertise. Substack could easily be a playground for ideas that then are polished and backed up by vetted knoweldge, then submitted for review. Having worked closely with 2 academic journals, you don’t even know how hard it is to get pieces that are good enough for publication, and feminist presses need good works. So let’s do good works, and bring academia into the public production of intellectual work and knowledge. That would be something else!
https://gmwrites.substack.com/p/can-substack-be-a-digital-humanity